Nobel Prize 1980: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Frederick Sanger, Walter Gilbert

   Chemistry

   for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids

2. Chemistry

   Paul Berg

   Chemistry

   for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA

3. Medicine

   Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell

   Biology

   for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions

4. Physics

   James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch

   Physics

   for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons